GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which features GPU clock speed of 1552 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 114 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 580 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 36992 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (approximately 151%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 74752 (151%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (more or less 34%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 580, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12608 (34%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.